AsurasHaiku
@asurashaiku
High school English teacher interested in reading, writing, and translating haiku.
son father on on a a given given day day | | | | | ________ | plus or minus --Hanmonsen Kimura #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation
a female nude after a bath ɹoɹɹᴉɯ mirror ɥʇɐq ɐ ɹəʇɟɐ əpnu əꞁɐɯ ɐ --Hanmonsen Kimura #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation
Ittan-momen swollen from the rain Jack & Betty --Yukie Noma 一反木綿雨後をふくらむジャック&ベティ 野間幸恵 Note: Ittan-momen is a yōkai in the form of a roll of cotton #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
rice-planting ceremony the cattle cheerfully mooing --Tetsu Hayashi 花田植牛ほがらかに吼えにけり 林 徹 #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation Image: kitahiro.jp/about/mibu_h...
Happy to be in this week's #Haiku Dialogue! Thank you to guest editor Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting mine to appear. To see the full list of selections, visit: thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
The latest issue of Prune Juice, the #senryu journal, is out, and I'm happy to have a poem in its pages. Thank you to the editors! And congratulations to Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social for taking over starting next issue! To read more, go here: prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/07/30/i...
for sale in the cold wind golden rolled omelettes --Amari Oki 寒風に売る金色の卵焼 大木あまり Tamagoyaki: lit. "fried egg"; often translated as "rolled omelette," a food made from rolling layers of fried eggs together into a rectangular shape #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
Big thanks to @lafcadiopoetry for selecting my poem for this week's #Haiku Dialogue. Read more here: thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Pleasantly surprised to have been selected for commentary in this week's #Haiku Dialogue! Thank you to guest editor Allyson Whipple for her insightful response. Read other selections here: thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
the kadomatsu are like anti-aircraft artillery --Wakayuki Fukuda 門松が対空砲のようにある 福田若之 Note: kadomatsu: New Year's pine decorations set outside the door in Japan #haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
she’s prettier than I am sludge worm Sumiko Ikeda The fragment sludge worm could suggest either that the speaker sees herself as a sludge worm or that she finds the worm prettier than herself. Either way, the #haiku seems to explore the low self-esteem that arises from comparisons #GreatHaiku #19
In comics class, I went over a lesson on Matt Groening's Life in Hell, and I assigned students to create their own Life in Hell-style strip. Some complained that they can't draw, so I showed them how you could do it without hardly drawing a thing... Apologies to Mr. Groening 😅